after the opening of the Cyrillian council the Antiochians arrived[1], and, as they, too, on the 26th of June[2], probably the very day of their arrival[3], opened with Nestorius and others the council or rather their party-council, and deposed Cyril and Memnon, there was, therefore, then, one party-council standing in opposition to the other. The Roman legates who arrived last of all joined the Cyrillian synod.
Now it was for the emperor to decide. After many transactions, which need not be described, induced by the demonstrating monks of Constantinople, he heard delegates of both parties[4], and if not earlier at least then ceased to be a protector of Nestorius. Nestorius himself made this easier for the emperor by writing to Constantinople that he, if the right doctrine were sanctioned, would willingly renounce his bishopric and return to his monastery at Antioch[5]. Nevertheless the
- ↑ Hefele, 2nd ed. ii, 192, note 2 (1875), left it undecided whether John arrived June 26th or the 27th; but even before the publication of the Bibliotheca Casinensis, i, 2, p. 24 (published 1873), it was to be seen in Mansi, v, 773 b, that the first session of the Antiochian council was held the 26th of June (VI Cal. Jul.).
- ↑ Comp. the preceding note.
- ↑ This is pretended by the Cyrillian party (Mansi, iv, 1333 b); and the notice in the Synodicon (Mansi, v, 773 a; Bibliotheca Casin. i, 1, p. 58 a): mox enim post triduum veniens Joannes, probably confirms it, since the preceding document dates from June 23rd (Mansi, v, 772 c: hesterno die).
- ↑ Hefele, ii, 213 ff., 230 ff.; comp. now Nestorius, liber Heraclidis, Bedjan, p. 375 ff.; Nau, p. 241 ff.
- ↑ Nestoriana, p. 194, 16 ff.; comp. p. 195, note = Mansi, v, 792 f.
